Quotes About Passion

Why do we have to do this, Sam?" Sam threw his arms up in the air, gesturing wildly, shouting, "Because I love you, you crazy woman.

But you're the only one who can fire up my blood with just one look, make me want to drag you against me and kiss you senseless in the blink of an eye, so I know it's for real.

I'm Irish!...When I feel well I feel better than anyone, when I am in pain I yell at the top of my lungs, and when I am dead I shall be deader than anybody.

He took her into his arms again, using all his strength to be gentle, and let his lips touch hers so lightly he could hardly feel it.

He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for.

The romantic idealization of love and the beloved had no source in Roman or Germanic tradition. It came apparently from Islamic Spain, where women had a good deal of freedom and were often poets in their own right. It was there that a mystical doctrine of love as a holy passion, pure and uplifting, developed. Arabic literature is full of parted and thwarted lovers, totally faithful and devoted. Its poetry is mostly love poetry, foreshadowing the themes and styles of the French troubadours.

If this were not love, then Landon was ignorant indeed. And if love were a folly, then he was content to be a fool.

Focused. I'm a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else.

I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!

A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.

Even Bach comes down to the basic suck, blow, suck, suck, blow.

Forgive me, Majesty. I am a vulgar man! But I assure you, my music is not.

Cricket is not everything, not by any means, but it is a large part of who I am.

When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.

I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.

You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

If you wish to be heard in the noise of this world, let your soul be dominated by a single idea. It is the man with a single idea who creates political and social revolutions, establishes empires and gives law to the world.

For, although he didn't know it, to him work was a sort of intoxication which gave him a glowing health and plenty of easy sleep.

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.

Would that, like the smoke of the watch-fires that mounts and vanishes at random in the empty sky, the smouldering flame of passion could burn itself away

sen ?ehre s?rt?n? dönen uykusuz da?l? gemiler nerde (ki ço?u hüviyetidir melankolinin) nerde ayk?r? mavzerler (onlara s??d?ramazs?n ki öfkelerini) barut esmeri tenine sevdalar?m? sürdü?üm nas?l ta??d?n bunca y?l delirmi? saçlar?nda o eski ?ark yelini biliyorum dokunsam parmaklar?m k?r?l?r dokunmasam e?k?ya uykusuzlu?u çetin silahlar gibi

only my fingers in your hair, only, my eyes splitting the skull to tickle your brain with love in a slow caress blurring the mind, kissing your mouth awake opening the body's mouth and stopping the words. — Muriel Rukeyser, from "Three Sides of a Coin," Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser . (University of Pittsburgh Press May 10th 2014)

My novel] took up the sweetest part of my mind and the rarest part of my imagination; it was like being in love and better. All day long when I was busy [...], I had my unfinished novel personified almost as a secret companion and accomplice following me like a shadow wherever I went, whatever I did.

I'm a car fanatic and each morning I wake up with a smile on my face, whether I'm commentating on the Formula One or at Silver Hatch racetrack in Roary the Racing Car.